Practical Co-Teaching Strategies
to Effectively Support Your
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS in Inclusive Classrooms

(Grades K-8)

Presented by Kathy Perez
Outstanding Teacher, Author and National Presenter

Specifically Designed for English Language Teachers and General Education Teachers

Practical strategies to maximize the achievement of your English language learners through effective co-teaching practices

How to scaffold and differentiate your co-teaching instruction to better meet the needs of your English language learners

Understand and apply the essential components of co-teaching in order to create an inclusive learning environment for both co-teachers and students

Discover the multiple approaches to co-teaching and common pitfallsto avoid to maximize instructional time

Practical Ideas and Strategies

Co-teaching and teacher collaboration are proven strategies for helping students with diverse backgrounds, such as English language learners, achieve academic success. This practical seminar provides a step-by-step guide to make an ELL co-teaching program work! In this fast-paced and highly practical day, Kathy Perez, an experienced teacher and co-teaching expert, will share proven, research-based strategies that will enable you to maximize the positive impact of your co-teaching partnership.

Come and discover the essential components for a successful co-teaching program: learn practical ways to define your roles, a variety of co-teaching approaches, ways to plan and deliver instruction, as well as how to make the most of each teacher’s strengths. The emphasis will be on creative and time-efficient strategies you can use in your ELL co-teaching program!

You will leave this seminar with a wide variety of strategies and an extensive resource handbook to help you put the ideas to use immediately in your classroom.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

Powerful Co-Teaching Strategies to Maximize Achievement for English Language Learners
Discover ways to develop and strengthen ELL co-teaching programs … Learn the crucial and essential components of an effective co-teaching partnership that will increase learning for your ELL students

Select the Best Instructional Techniques for an ELL Co-Taught Classroom
Incorporate best teaching practices to increase the impact for all students, especially your English language learners … Make your classroom more language rich and teach your state standards

Motivate English Language Learners Through Active Learning
Multiple research-based strategies to increase achievement in a co-taught classroom … Proven ideas to motivate and engage your students

Differentiation Strategies to Better Meet ELL Needs in a Co-Taught Classroom
Co-teaching provides an excellent opportunity to better differentiate instruction … Discover numerous methods for differentiating and using cooperative group work to engage all your students

Adapt Your Curriculum and Instruction for ELLs in a Co-Taught Classroom
Build and add to your toolbox of strategies and practices to enrich your classroom instruction … Adapt and flex with your co-teaching partner

What Works and What Doesn’t Work in Co-Taught Classrooms
Avoid the common mistakes that can interfere with collaborative team building … Start out on the right foot and maintain the path to success

Multiple Co-Teaching Models and Approaches
Experience different co-teaching models designed to increase involvement in the instructional process … Ensure both teachers are fully utilized and actively engaged in the delivery of instruction to all students

Valuable and Must-Do Collaborative Decision Making
Learn important collaborative decisions about teacher roles and responsibilities … Ensure each team teacher’s time and talents are used most effectively in the classroom

Exciting, hands-on and engaging instructional techniques designed for ELLs in a co-taught classroom

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

As both English language specialists and general education teachers, we have the same hope for our students: that they are able to perform to the best of their abilities each and every day. In today’s society, we face many challenges as we strive toward this vision of success for our students. Co-teaching is an instructional approach that puts two professionals together to share their expertise to greatly increase the academic achievement of students. This approach will enhance your own teaching skills, make it easier to match learning styles to students and most importantly, provide your ELLs with a richer and more effective learning environment.

This seminar is designed to help you create or refine your own ELL co-teaching program. We will discuss how to build and maintain positive and productive working partnerships, ideas for creative scheduling, identifying the roles of each team teacher, and much, much more! I will share dozens of ideas and techniques to provide you with classroom-tested methods, activities and strategies you can use immediately to support ELL students.

Experience shows that students are not the only ones who gain from co-teaching. It is a powerful and rewarding model that can have significant benefits for teachers as well. I invite you to join me for a day to help you start or make the most of your current co-teaching program with ELLs so everyone can reap the benefits of this research-based and very practical model of teaching.

Sincerely,
Kathy Perez, EdD

P.S. I guarantee you will leave this seminar re-energized and armed with ready-to-use tools that will make a tremendous difference for your English language learners!

Who Should Attend

Grades K-8 English language teachers and general education teachers who currently co-teach or plan to co-teach as part of their school’s inclusion practices. Co-teaching teams are encouraged to attend, but not required.

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Resource Handbook
Each participant will receive an extensive resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. The handbook includes:

Strategies to differentiate your instruction in the inclusive, co-taught classroom

Ideas for building a success-oriented, ELL co-teaching program for all students

Best, current research on learning

Dozens of ready-to-use activities for K-8 inclusive and ELL classrooms

Meet and Share
This seminar provides a great opportunity for participants to meet and share ideas with other educators interested in strengthening their ELL inclusive, co-taught classroom.

Consultation Available
Kathy Perez will be available to answer questions regarding the unique needs of your own ELL co-taught classroom.

Semester Credit Option
Up to four Graduate level professional development credit are available with an additional fee and completion of follow up practicum activities.
Details for direct enrollment with Brandman University, part of the Chapman University system, will be available at this BER program.

Meet Inservice Requirements
At the end of the program, each attendee will receive
a certificate of participation that may be used to verify hours of participation in
meeting continuing education requirements.